A timeline of ChatGPT: major events, milestones, controversies, etc.
| Date | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
| June 08 | ChatGPT iOS app | OpenAI's ChatGPT app for iOS has received a major update that includes improved iPad support and integration with Apple Shortcuts. |
| June 08 | GPT-5 | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed on Wednesday that the company is not currently training GPT-5, the successor to its powerful AI language model GPT-4. |
| May 30 | ChatGPT iOS app | The ChatGPT iOS app is now available in 152 countries and regions. |
| May 25 | OpenAI | OpenAI Threatens to Leave EU Over AI Act. |
| May 19 | ChatGPT For iOS | OpenAI has released an official ChatGPT app for iOS. |
| May 16 | OpenAI | OpenAI CEO Calls for New AI Regulatory Agency to Protect Against Misuse. |
| May 13 | Web Browsing | The web browsing feature in ChatGPT was introduced on May 12, 2023. This feature was initially available only to ChatGPT Plus users. |
| May 02 | OpenAI | ChatGPT creator says there’s 50% chance AI ends in 'doom'. |
| Apr 28 | OpenAI | OpenAI closes $300M share sale at $27B-29B valuation. |
| Apr 28 | Back In Italy | ChatGPT back in Italy after OpenAI met regulators’ privacy demands. |
| Apr 19 | Data Protection | Germany launches data protection inquiry over ChatGPT. |
| Apr 19 | OpenAI | OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has said that the era of ever-larger artificial intelligence models is coming to an end, as cost constraints and diminishing returns curb the relentless scaling that has defined the field for years.Source |
| Mar 20 | ChatGPT outage | OpenAI took ChatGPT offline earlier this week due to a bug in an open-source library which allowed some users to see titles from another active user’s chat history. It’s also possible that the first message of a newly-created conversation was visible in someone else’s chat history if both users were active around the same time. |
| Mar 14 | ChatGPT Plugins | OpenAI implemented initial support for plugins in ChatGPT. Plugins are tools designed specifically for language models with safety as a core principle, and help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services. |
| Mar 14 | GPT-4 Release | OpenAI announced GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI’s effort in scaling up deep learning. GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks. |
| Mar 01 | ChatGPT and Whisper APIs | Developers can now integrate ChatGPT and Whisper models into their apps and products through our API. |
| Feb 07 | Google Bard | Google presents its own AI chatbot called Bard, which is similar to ChatGPT. Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that Bard is more powerful and reliable than ChatGPT, as it draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses. Bard is part of a series of tools based on generative artificial intelligence that Google launches to the market at this time. |
| Feb 07 | Bing ChatGPT | Reinventing search with a new AI-powered Microsoft Bing and Edge, your copilot for the web. |
| Feb 05 | Anthropic/Claude | Google is investing $300M in an OpenAI challenger that will take on ChatGPT while focusing on A.I. safety. |
| Feb 02 | 100 million users | ChatGPT reaches 100 million users two months after launch. |
| Feb 01 | ChatGPT Plus | OpenAI launched a pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT. The new subscription plan, ChatGPT Plus, will be available for $20/month. |
| Jan 26 | ChatGPT | ChatGPT passes exams from law and business schools. |
| Jan 14 | Microsoft | Microsoft in talks to acquire a 49% stake in ChatGPT owner OpenAI. |
| Jan 09 | Microsoft | Microsoft is looking at OpenAI’s GPT for Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint. |
| Date | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 30 | ChatGPT release | OpenAI released a model called ChatGPT, which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. |
| Mar 15 | GPT-3.5 release | OpenAI released GPT-3.5. |
| Date | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
| June 11 | GPT-3 release | OpenAI released GPT-3. GPT-3 contained even more parameters (around 116 times more than GPT-2), and was a stronger and faster version of its predecessors. |
| June 11 | OpenAI API | OpenAI released an API for accessing new AI models. |
| Date | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Nov 05 | GPT-2: 1.5B release | As the final model release of GPT-2's staged release, OpenAI's releasing the largest version (1.5B parameters) of GPT-2 along with code and model weights to facilitate detection of outputs of GPT-2 models. |
| Aug 20 | GPT-2: 6-month follow-up | OpenAI's releasing the 774 million parameter GPT-2 language model after the release of our small 124M model in February, staged release of our medium 355M model in May, and subsequent research with partners and the AI community into the model’s potential for misuse and societal benefit. |
| July 22 | Microsoft invests in OpenAI | Microsoft invests in and partners with OpenAI to support them building beneficial AGI. |
| Feb 14 | GPT-2 Release | OpenAI trained a large-scale unsupervised language model which generates coherent paragraphs of text, achieves state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, and performs rudimentary reading comprehension, machine translation, question answering, and summarization—all without task-specific training. |
| Date | Event | Details |
|---|---|---|
| June 11 | GPT Release | Improving language understanding with unsupervised learning. |